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My goodness Tec, you ARE in a bad way! Worse than I thought.

Tec,

So are we in for a nasty spell of wevver?

Allan

Would that be poort or ypingis?

Tec

Hello Allan and Tec. Worn out Tec......no never surely:-)))

Allan I would love your curry sauce recipe. Is it versatile as my family like curried anything.

Sue xx

Edit - I could almost forgive the "sergeant major" tag

Come on, Allan. Own up. You are still shaking from your walk. What did she say to you????

You are welcome to the pasta sauce allan.

i have a very large stewpan,so I usually make three times the basic recipe at once.

basic amount

brown 2 cloves of garlic in 75ml of extra virgin olive oil,
bung in
2 medium onions sliced, 2 tins of chopped tomatoes (400g size), 2 cartons of passatta (500g size) half a pint of water, half a teaspoon of salt, a large bunch of basil (I just bung the whole thing in,stalks and all)

Cook uncovered for 2 hours, then cool and liquidise, or just do it with a hand held blender,which is what I do.

Two hours sounds a long time, but it just needs stirring occasionally and I make a huge vat of the stuff. It isn't an exact science and the more basil the better

If you cook it long enough it makes a very thick,strong sauce.which is all the better for adding loads of grated parmesan when you add the pasta. The real cheese of course, not that disgusting grated look alike stuff you get in tubs in this country

I think Eastenders have wevver,

it is blowing a gale here, and the sea sounds horrendous

Tec

I have just looked out Tec and I think that it actually has stopped raining now

That should have been 'poor typing' but was actually a self-fulfilling prophesy!

Sue I'll get the recipe to you. I make the powder, whih usually makes five or six curries, but then put extra amounts of some of the same ingredients into the sauce. I'll get my OH to type out both recipes and then paste (no pun intended) them on this Thread

Allan

Yes Linda, it's drying up here too, but very windy,
I chickened out of taking my dog out tonight......cruel.

Tec

Poor dog, is it standing with it's legs crossed?

Linda, thanks for that

My curry sauce is like that: it has evolved over the years and I call it a mish-mash curry because basically you can put what you like into it

Allan

No Linda, he has been in the garden several times, but I didn't fancy walking round the village, and possibly being blown away.

Tec

I don't blame you Tec. I hope you kept the dog on a lead while he went into the garden. I have visions of him being blown away and you hauling him back, a bit like flying a kite

Poor dog - will a cork work do you think? That was a bit rude:-))

Thanks Allan - I'll look forward to that.

Linda I'll copy that recipe too if you don't mind. My grandson in Hobard has Italian grandparents and his Nonna makes the most fabulous pasta sauce. They actually have a small kitchen underneath the main house that they use for bottling many things including pickled walnuts which I don't like and winemaking. We usually come home with a couple of bottles of sauce and red wine. It's a bit rough - the wine that is - but still very nice.

Sue xx

Ha Ha Linda, he's an overweight labrador, no chance of being blown away.
Tec

The weather here is lovely at the moment (9:10am), but forecast for "rain this morning, increasing this afternoon". Great! I'm going to a BBQ!

Berona,
Enjoy the BBQ - did you say it was your birthday this week? 39 I think you said. (not being rude, but I think that's stretching things a bit far)
What day is your birthday - Allan, Colin and I are coming with flowers.

Tec

Sue, my apologies

I never answered your question regarding the curry sauce.

Yes, you can use it with most things as it is made as a stand alone dish.

We usually cook some chicken portions and then pour the sauce over them. If there is any sauce left over we usually have it the following day with prawns.

It also can be used on its own as a vegetable curry and it freezes well

Allan

I thought that Berona was 93 Tec. would these be the same dead flowers Allan posted weeks ago, or are you going to purloin some from the local graveyard on the way?